Transitioning from Professional Socialization to Occupational Socialization:Bridging Doctoral Education and Early-stage Academic Career
The academic profession serves as a crucial link fostering the integrated development of education,technology,and talent.Its primary conduit lies in doctoral education.However,early-career academics face multiple challenges such as role-transition from students to faculty,indicating inefficient linkage between the cultivation and utilization of high-level talents,essentially reflecting a disconnect between professional socialization and organizational socialization within the doctoral education-to-academic career pathway.Through semi-structured interviews with 16 faculty members at early-stage of their academic careers in research universities in China,this study delineates the challenges they faced during the transition from doctoral education to academic profession from a socialization perspective.It suggests that the inherent contradictions primarily stem from the professional socialization process of doctoral students,which revolves around knowledge acquisition and creation as its core logic,conflicting with the demands of career development and professional role expectations inherent in the academic profession operating with the negotiating cognitive logic and social logic.Therefore,the study suggests an integration of career development dimensions into the doctoral socialization process to facilitate the transition from professional socialization to occupational socialization,thereby effectively bridging doctoral education and academic profession,and promoting their high-quality sustainable development.
professional socializationoccupational socializationdoctoral educationearly-stage academic career
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